I’m not sure I know you well enough yet, to say anything more on the subject… Except that this photo was taken at nine o’clock in the morning. Have a wonderful, safe holiday. And beware of Bahamian men bearing gifts… Today I’m not drinking because, although it’s five o’clock somewhere, and a bunch of people have […]
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May
May
The definition of coming-of-age is : a young person’s transition from childhood to adulthood. I was thinking about it this morning, because my friend Dee’s son Jake graduated from high school yesterday. On the same day, my buddy LCDR Andy Payne, retired from the Navy. There are certain times when it is OBVIOUS one […]
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May
May
Yesterday I went for one of my marathon beach hikes in the world’s best secret place: Guana State Park. I feel I can tell you, because this Blog is new and not many people are reading it yet… I take pepper spray with me, by the way, and I know you’re supposed to spray it down-wind, […]
Good time gals – Debs and Val. I think I mentioned I was married to an Englishman. Val is one of the spoils of the our divorce. Debs is her friend, and the only person I know who uses the “C” word the way her countrymen use “brilliant” – as a sort of omnipresent, verbal tic. […]
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May
May
http://https://youtu.be/rGr6i5Sar5s My best friend Kim and I were talking the other day about some of the crazy things I did when I was drinking. She was planning a trip to Los Angeles to visit her daughter, and this came up:* “Mare, remember the time you had the party at the W Hotel in Los Angeles?” […]
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May
May
The flaming wreckage is over the hill behind the ponies… My friend Val says I look like an Air Hostess in this photograph. I was visiting her in England recently – it was the first time in my adult life I had seen England without the benefit of booze. I was sober as Stonehenge, people. She […]
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May
May
…when you were drunk. The difference between what you thought you looked like and what you really looked like is marked. To put it mildly. In the movie “One Hour Photo” the creepy Robin Williams character says, “No one takes a picture of something they want to forget.” What if someone else takes the picture? […]
So happy “in the drink”… ..but he’s a lot more responsible. You will recall, from your Lit 101 class, that our man was trying to get home after the Trojan War, pissed off the Gods, and had to suffer a bunch of symbolic trials before he could do so. Somewhere along the way, […]
I once bought a trip to AFRICA at a charity auction at the Jacksonville Zoo. Do I need to say I had drunk too much Jungle Juice at the Zoo-Beration? The next day, when the phone rang and the cheerful, Junior League volunteer asked for my credit card information – $10,000.00 and it didn’t include […]
My first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting was intimidating. The meeting place looked like a miniature Cracker Barrel restaurant, with rocking chairs on the veranda, and live oaks providing dappled shade. The parking lot was filled like Costco on payday with everything from shiny Black Mercedes to beater pick-up trucks. A Heinz variety of drunks.I sat […]